DANUBE SKILLS MEETING ITS FIRST CHALLENGES AND CRISSCROSSING EUROPE FROM BUCHAREST TO BRUSSELS

Dear readers,

Welcome to Danube SKILLS first Newsletter and kindly get acquainted with project particulars, our first activities and a lot more issues of highest interest for the Danube region we are happy to share with you. An impressive consortium of 15 partners from Germany, Austria, Croatia, Slovakia, Hungary, Bulgaria, Serbia and Romania and 7 Associated Strategic Partners from France, the Netherlands, Belgium, the Czech Republic, Croatia, Hungary and Germany has embarked on a challenging 30 months’ journey with the equally challenging mission of providing decision makers and public and private users of Danube navigation the tools, strategies, action plans and co-operation patterns so as to make a difference in the quality of personnel on shore and on board the vessels, mobility of inland workforce, safety of navigation and ultimate integration of the Danube in the modern multimodal transport system.

Project particulars

Funding programme: Danube Transnational Programme (DTP),

Priority Area: PA 4 – Well governed Danube Region,

Specific Objective: SO 4.1 Improve institutional capacities to tackle major societal challenges,

Project duration: 30 months (January 2017 – June 2019),

Project budget: 2,023,100 euro,

Funding rate: 85% (ERDF, IPA),

Start Date: 01.01.2017,

End Date: 30.06.2019,

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Now that you have first basic information on our project, please stay with us for just a few more minutes.… following pages on project kick-off event, national workshops on the forthcoming EU Directive on recognition of professional qualifications or the interesting interviews kindly offered by Ms. Christelle Rousseau/ Directorate-General for Mobility and Transport - DG MOVE, Unit B.3 – Ports and Inland Navigation and Capt. Laurentiu Mironescu/ Euro River Transport promise an exciting and pleasurable reading……  please enjoy them!!!

KICK OFF MEETING

Successful start of Danube SKILLS project was celebrated in Capital Plaza Horel, Bucharest, Romania on 21st February 2017. Hosted by the LP, CERONAV, the project kick off event enjoyed the presence of over 80 participants including representatives of all river commissions, European and national stakeholders and social partners who all received most favourably the information supplied on Danube SKILLS objectives and activities and ongoing European initiatives related to legislative framework governing professional qualifications in inland navigation....read more

Public consultations on recognition of professional qualifications in inland navigation

Danube SKILLS project partners have recently completed the public consultations organized in all consortium countries and intended to raise awareness on the European Commission proposal for a new European Directive on recognition of professional qualifications in inland navigation and pave the way for its implementation in the Danube region once adopted by the European Parliament. The national workshops disseminating the contents of the proposal and collecting feedback on existing legislative framework in project countries.....read more

Interview with Christelle Rousseau about the future EU Directive on recognition of professional qualifications in inland navigation

Ms. Christelle Rousseau, of Directorate-General for Mobility and Transport - DG MOVE, Unit B.3 – Ports and Inland Navigation and one of the key designers of the European Commission proposal on recognition of professional qualifications in inland navigation talked about the calendar of implementation, changes and positive impact of the new European legislation one.........read more

Interview with Capt. Laurentiu Mironescu on challenges and hopes of Romanian transport operators

Capt. Laurentiu MIRONESCU, General Manager of an important Romanian river transport company, Euro River Transport  and President of Romanian Naval League shared with Danube SKILLS his opinions on current crucial issues regarding inland navigation workforce, common system of Union certificates and the opportunities for logistics services on the Danube.......read more

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GHIULER MANOLE- PROJECT MANAGER

Phone: +40 241 639595/ 2223

Email: ghiulermanole@ceronav.ro

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